On 25/03/2022 18:56, Jason Merrill via Gcc-patches wrote:
Perhaps a suitable compromise would be to add a separate warning flag
specifically for the strn* warnings, so users deliberately using the
bound to express a limit other than the length of the argument string
(and confident that their st
On 3/17/22 06:35, Jonathan Wakely via Gcc-patches wrote:
On 15/03/22 14:36 -0600, Martin Sebor wrote:
On 3/15/22 10:40, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:
On 15/03/2022 21:09, Martin Sebor wrote:
The strncmp function takes arrays as arguments (not necessarily
strings).? The main purpose of the -Wstring
On 3/17/22 12:02, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:
On 17/03/2022 23:21, Martin Sebor wrote:
On 3/17/22 11:22, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:
On 17/03/2022 22:16, Jeff Law wrote:
#include
char a[] = "abc";
char b[] = "abcd";
int f (void)
{
return strncmp (a, b, 8);
}
w
On 17/03/2022 23:21, Martin Sebor wrote:
On 3/17/22 11:22, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:
On 17/03/2022 22:16, Jeff Law wrote:
#include
char a[] = "abc";
char b[] = "abcd";
int f (void)
{
return strncmp (a, b, 8);
}
where I get
t.c:7:10: warning: ‘strncmp’
On 3/17/22 11:22, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:
On 17/03/2022 22:16, Jeff Law wrote:
#include
char a[] = "abc";
char b[] = "abcd";
int f (void)
{
return strncmp (a, b, 8);
}
where I get
t.c:7:10: warning: ‘strncmp’ specified bound 8 exceeds source size 5
On 17/03/2022 22:16, Jeff Law wrote:
#include
char a[] = "abc";
char b[] = "abcd";
int f (void)
{
return strncmp (a, b, 8);
}
where I get
t.c:7:10: warning: ‘strncmp’ specified bound 8 exceeds source size 5
[-Wstringop-overread]
7 | return
On Mär 17 2022, Jeff Law via Gcc-patches wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 17, 2022 at 9:32 AM Marek Polacek via Gcc-patches <
> gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org> wrote:
>> I think I agree, I've tried
>>
>> #include
>> char a[] = "abc";
>> char b[] = "abcd";
>>
>> int f (void)
>> {
>> return strncmp (a, b, 8);
>> }
On Thu, Mar 17, 2022 at 9:32 AM Marek Polacek via Gcc-patches <
gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 16, 2022 at 06:54:51AM +0530, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:
> > On 16/03/2022 02:06, Martin Sebor wrote:
> > > The intended use of the strncmp bound is to limit the comparison to
> > > at most
On Wed, Mar 16, 2022 at 06:54:51AM +0530, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:
> On 16/03/2022 02:06, Martin Sebor wrote:
> > The intended use of the strncmp bound is to limit the comparison to
> > at most the size of the arrays or (in a subset of cases) the length
> > of an initial substring. Providing an ar
I agree with Siddhesh (and Jonathan).
Is there a release manager that can either review his patch, or
provide feedback as to what the course of action should be here?
Thanks.
Aldy
On Thu, Mar 17, 2022 at 2:44 AM Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:
>
> On 17/03/2022 05:11, Martin Sebor wrote:
> > As the G
On Tue, 2022-03-15 at 22:10 +0530, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:
> On 15/03/2022 21:09, Martin Sebor wrote:
> > The strncmp function takes arrays as arguments (not necessarily
> > strings). The main purpose of the -Wstringop-overread warning
> > for calls to it is to detect calls where one of the arra
On 15/03/22 14:36 -0600, Martin Sebor wrote:
On 3/15/22 10:40, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:
On 15/03/2022 21:09, Martin Sebor wrote:
The strncmp function takes arrays as arguments (not necessarily
strings).? The main purpose of the -Wstringop-overread warning
for calls to it is to detect calls whe
On 17/03/2022 05:11, Martin Sebor wrote:
As the GCC manual prominently states (and as I already pointed out)
warnings are:
We are indeed going around in circles. Hopefully someone else will
pitch in and break the deadlock.
Siddhesh
On 3/15/22 19:24, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:
On 16/03/2022 02:06, Martin Sebor wrote:
The intended use of the strncmp bound is to limit the comparison to
at most the size of the arrays or (in a subset of cases) the length
of an initial substring. Providing an arbitrary bound that's not
related to
On 16/03/2022 02:06, Martin Sebor wrote:
The intended use of the strncmp bound is to limit the comparison to
at most the size of the arrays or (in a subset of cases) the length
of an initial substring. Providing an arbitrary bound that's not
related to the sizes as you describe sounds very much l
On 3/15/22 10:40, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:
On 15/03/2022 21:09, Martin Sebor wrote:
The strncmp function takes arrays as arguments (not necessarily
strings). The main purpose of the -Wstringop-overread warning
for calls to it is to detect calls where one of the arrays is
not a nul-terminated s
On 15/03/2022 21:09, Martin Sebor wrote:
The strncmp function takes arrays as arguments (not necessarily
strings). The main purpose of the -Wstringop-overread warning
for calls to it is to detect calls where one of the arrays is
not a nul-terminated string and the bound is larger than the size
o
On 3/14/22 23:31, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:
The size argument in strncmp only describe the maximum length to which
to compare two strings and is not an indication of sizes of the two
source strings. Do not warn if it is larger than the two input strings
because it is entirely likely that the siz
The size argument in strncmp only describe the maximum length to which
to compare two strings and is not an indication of sizes of the two
source strings. Do not warn if it is larger than the two input strings
because it is entirely likely that the size argument is a conservative
maximum to accomm
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